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...urging everyone to head to the edsa shrine, the main focus of the People Power II movement. "We texted everybody to go running there: 'edsa. edsa: everybody converge on edsa!'" In China, tens of thousands of followers of the spiritual group Falun Gong continue to exist - despite a harsh crackdown - in a vibrant community fed by the Web and encrypted text messaging. Last November, after learning from foreign news sites of the arrival of the first American President since the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of citizens lined the streets of Hanoi to welcome Bill Clinton despite a state information...
...crackdown is timely, given that 200 patents are set to expire over the next five years on branded drugs with annual sales totaling $30 billion. That will give the makers of copycat products a rare opportunity to steal market share, since generics on average debut at 75% of the cost of their name-brand rivals. The price difference could be crucial to many Americans since the average cost to fill a prescription jumped 10.5% in 2000--to $45.27--according to the National Institute for Health Care Management. That increase was more than three times as great as the overall rate...
...then there's the countervailing view, which holds that awarding the Games to Beijing would actually force it to be on best behavior for the next seven years - some in Washington argue that the Chinese leadership would be restrained from risking a Tiananmen Square-type crackdown if their prized Olympiad was at stake. So, with most observers holding Beijing as the slight favorite over Paris and Toronto, the China-bashers, human rights advocates, Tibetan independence campaigners and others who hope to stop the IOC awarding it the games are probably not going to prevail. But in the (likely) event their...
...ALGERIA Violence Begets Violence in North Africa Berber demonstrators took on police in the Algerian city of Bejaïa. They were protesting a crackdown that followed riots - over a student's death in detention - that left at least 40 dead. The Berbers, one-third of the population, are demanding official recognition of their language, Tamazight, as well as employment and better housing. Though Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced an inquiry into the causes of the clashes, the main Berber party pulled out of the government...
...University’s decision to follow a conciliatory policy rather than initiate a crackdown similar to 1969. But during the uncertain days at the beginning of the sit-in, all it might have taken to turn the protest quite ugly was a single shove by a tired, overworked police officer. In such a tense situation, with both parties weary and tempers surely on a short fuse, HUPD managed the sit-in in a way that showed its respect and care for Harvard’s students. HUPD’s conduct over the course of the protest...